Mosiah 1:5 · 1 Nephi 12:23
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Benjamin's brass-plates counterfactual uses the exact phrase of Nephi's vision for the people who did not escape the fate. Family distribution: exact 'dwindled in unbelief' at nine verses (1 Nephi 12:23, 15:13; 2 Nephi 26:15, 26:17, 26:19; Mosiah 1:5; Helaman 15:15; Mormon 9:35; Ether 4:3); the wider dwindle-in-unbelief family at twenty-three (adding 1 Nephi 4:13 ['dwindle and perish in unbelief' - the rationale for obtaining the brass plates Benjamin teaches from], 10:11, 12:22, 13:35; 2 Nephi 1:10; Alma 45:10, 45:12, 50:22; Helaman 6:34, 15:11; 3 Nephi 21:5; 4 Nephi 1:34, 1:38; Mormon 9:20). 12:23 chosen as closest end: exact 'dwindled in unbelief' plus the same referent - Benjamin's 'like unto our brethren, the Lamanites' is the state 12:23 depicts.